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PostIcon Posted on: May 08 2015,18:56  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

ESPN will not renew Bill Simmons' contract.

Bill Simmons is the single best sports writer (/pop culture) going today. He's the one driving Grantland (Without his traffic the site would already be gone. That's an actual fact.) and created the award winning 30 for 30 series among many, many other things he's done at ESPN.

So why are they shit canning him? Most sources say it's because of his constant clashes with management and other talent. Not to mention his constant criticism of ESPN. Simmons even said he was basically done with ESPN back when they suspended him during the Ray Rice fiasco because he had the balls to say Goodell was a liar.

The funny part is Simmons bashing ESPN is why he was originally hired.

Simmons made a point years ago that ESPN keeps losing their best folks (and they have, go look at the people who have left) because they treat them like shit, have an inept management structure, and refuse to let personalities be themselves. A theory echoed by several other ESPN personalities.

Simmons will now move onto where ever the fuck he wants because other outlets are already publicly courting him like Fox Sports, CBS Sports, Deadspin, etc.

Meanwhile, ESPN "the leader in sports" is filling its air time with sports shock jock Colin Cowherd (who I like, but let's be honest, he's Howard Stern without sex/women and sports instead), Stephen A. Smith, Skip Bayless, and other ignorant jackasses who actually make sports less interesting. This from a network that is continually being accused of crushing negative stories about the SEC and the NFL (business partners), and who thinks the entire nation gives a fuck about seeing every single Red Sox-Yankees game.

ESPN is CNN before Fox News came along and rapidly moving into MTV country where no actual sports will ever be shown like MTV doesn't show music videos.
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Cowherd is gone.

So ESPN, this year alone, has lost their best columnist and the guy responsible for their best programming (Bill Simmons), their #1 radio show host (Cowherd), one of their original crew in Olbermann (although his leaving is not really a loss), and a co-host of their #2 radio show in Van Pelt.

ESPN sucks.
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PostIcon Posted on: Jul. 24 2015,10:20 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

Colin still going on.

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imagine the nerve to suggest the educational standards in a very poor country aren't as good as those in a first world country!
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Cowherd explains some of what's wrong with ESPN.
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Jason Whitlock out.
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Stephen A. Smith theatens Kevin Durant on live TV.

That's a hell of a network they're running over there.
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What the fuck is he on?

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Charlie Steiner agrees that ESPN has lost its way.
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Goodbye Grantland.

Created by Bill Simmons, and almost without any support from ESPN, became a pretty big success (although most traffic was for Simmons).
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ESPN experiment bombs.
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(Leisher @ Feb. 17 2016,09:03)
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Many years ago I was watching UNC play someone on local TV.  A moment in I realized something was odd. There were no announcers.  They had lost the announcer feed, and all you could hear was the ACTUAL GAME.  Shoes squeaking, people calling out plays, etc.  It was AWESOME.

Of course, CBS decides to fix this by REVERTING to an SD feed with announcer audio.  Fuckers.

ESPN should experiment with no announcer ball.


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ESPN sucks at confirming stories.

Yet another example of why news reporting is getting worse. The rush to report news before anyone else is hurting the news industry.
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